Google’s Web search double standard

As pointed out on Charles Giuliani’s Truth Hertz on June 29, 2012 (starting at 8:21), Google’s Web search has a double standard, which I had heard of several years ago.

For instance, if you search for “Italian crime” or “Asian crime,” you are presented with normal search results, yet if you search for “Jewish crime,” you are presented with this message near the bottom:

I’m disturbed and offended by any crime, so why is Google particularly concerned about “offensive” search results for “Jewish crime”?

Previously, I wrote the article, Hypocritical grandstanding by Ebay and Chapters Indigo, about Chapters Indigo owner Heather Reisman’s double standard of banning Hitler’s Mein Kampf, while profiting off the sales of lesser-known books like Martin Luther’s, On the Jews and Their Lies.

Update: I didn’t use quotation marks in my search, but used it in the article to separate it from the rest of the text, so do the search without quotation marks, as I don’t see the notice when I search using quotation marks.

Yes, I tried without quotation marks and didn’t get the notice in Firefox, but I tried again in Chrome and I got it (my Firefox configuration may have blocked the notice). So you are right, it is not a legend.

However, it is worth mentioning that the message was presented as an ad (which may be why my Firefox configuration blocked it). Here is the exact message I got in Chrome, in a light pink box:

In contrast to the ad for “Jewish crime”, the link (www.humanrightsfirst.org) does not try to explain the results as “offensive search results”, but then again it does not seem to be targeted specifically against Italian crime.

A search for “French crime” or “Russian crime” leads to the same notice as “Italian crime”. So it’s true that the “Jewish crime” ad is apparently the only one specifically concerned with “offensive search results”, which is disturbing indeed.

An important note is that I searched for it without quotation marks in the search, and enclosed it in quotation marks in my article to separate it from the rest of the text. If I search for it with quotation marks, then I don’t get the notice, so try that as well and see.

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